Originally Posted by zontar2010

Just received a very "interesting" email message today after receiving my first card in IST during transit 3 weeks ago and receiving my welcome package about ten days ago:

"Dear Zontar,

We have received your e-mail message dated January X. Your Gold Card's expiration date is seen as January/2015. However in order to match your status with Turkish Airlines Elite Card, it needs to be 2 months left to expire date of your card since the date of your request.

Therefore we are sorry that we are unable to meet your demand positively.

Thank you for choosing Turkish Airlines on your flights.
Kind Regards,

TURKISH AIRLINES INC. Customer Contact Center"

My old *A Gold card actually expires end of Feb, I've already flown on TK with my Gold status, putting this down to a glitch like their email stating that you've been matched to Classic Plus. Anyone else get this message? A possible new data point for future reference for others.

ZT